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PAVE Receives Award by AutoTech Breakthrough

PAVE, an advanced automated vehicle inspection platform, has been named Overall Fleet Management Company Of The Year in the annual AutoTech Breakthrough Awards.

This year's program attracted more than 1,600 nominations from over 15 different countries throughout the world.

"Anyone who can take photos with a smartphone can use the PAVE product, and our clients benefit by unlocking the knowledge of a skilled inspector without the associated time and expense. We're pleased to be in this year's AutoTech Breakthrough Winners' Circle," said Brian Steinhauser, co-CEO, PAVE. "From optimizing fleet management to improving customer experience and vehicle safety, PAVE can help optimize your fleet's performance while reducing maintenance expenses. We will continue to enhance our technology to provide the most comprehensive and reliable inspection solutions in the industry, providing trust, transparency, and efficiency in vehicle inspections."

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PAVE enables clients to automatically receive graded vehicle condition reports, with estimations for repair costs, from photos alone. By following a guided image capture process on a smartphone, regardless of where the vehicle is located, PAVE's clients can reliably understand the condition of their vehicle. PAVE's automated approach to vehicle inspections provides significant efficiencies and accuracies for a diversified set of automotive use cases including vehicle acquisitions, disposals, fleet condition management, and vehicle merchandising.

For vehicle fleets, PAVE provides automated vehicle inspections that provide fleet managers access to a faster, more accurate, and cost-effective solution to traditional manual inspections. PAVE's automated vehicle inspections offer a streamlined approach to managing fleets, enabling fleet leasing companies, fleet owners, and fleet operators, to make quicker decisions at the VIN level.

"PAVE has truly transformed the vehicle inspection," said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director of AutoTech Breakthrough Awards. "Managing a vehicle fleet is challenging; it means keeping vehicles running smoothly, maintaining compliance with safety standards, and minimizing out-of-service time. We're thrilled to recognize PAVE as Overall Fleet Management Company of the Year for all their inspection solutions. PAVE removes complexity allowing you to know the condition of a fleet vehicle anytime, anywhere, automatically. They give fleet managers access to a faster, more accurate, and cost-effective solution to traditional manual inspections."

AutoTech Breakthrough Awards


The mission of the annual AutoTech Breakthrough Awards program is to conduct the industry's most comprehensive analysis and evaluation of automotive and transportation technology categories, including Connected Cars, Electric Vehicles, Engine Tech, Automotive Cybersecurity, Sensor Technology, Traffic Tech and many more.

 

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